Legal Opinion
Crowe v. Elder
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided February 27, 2012No. S11G1069PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HINES, Justice.
This Court granted certiorari to the Court of Appeals in Crowe v. Elder, 308 Ga. App. 529 (707 SE2d 494) (2011) (“Crowe II”), to consider whether that Court erred in determining that the doctrine of res judicata bars plaintiff Crowe’s “complaint for breach of contract” in this litigation involving the ultimate distribution of Crowe’s father’s estate. For the reasons that follow, we conclude that res judicata is a bar to the present suit, and we affirm the judgment *687of the Court of Appeals.
Walter E. Elder III (“decedent”) died intestate in 2004, leaving an estate valued at…
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